AMD Radeon RX 480 3DMark 11 benchmark score has been spotted online and it appears that it should pack quite a punch for its price.

Meant to hit retail with the US $199 price tag, the AMD Radeon RX 480 is based on AMD's Polaris 10 GPU, and although we knew it should offer over 5 TFLOPs of single-precision compute performance, we did not see any actual benchmark results until today.

The alleged benchmark has been spotted in the official 3DMark database where it is listed as an unknown graphics card. The Radeon RX 480 has been previously confirmed to come with the 67DF:C7 device ID so this benchmark result looks like a real deal. In case you missed it earlier, the Radeon RX 480 has 36 CUs with 2304 Stream Processors and comes with 4 or 8GB of GDDR5 memory, clocked at 2000MHz (8.0GHz effective), paired up with a 256-bit memory interface. The Polaris GPU is extremely power efficient so the RX 480 ends up with a 150W TDP and needs a single 6-pin PCIe power connector.

The P14461 score in 3DMark 11 puts the Radeon RX 480 around 2500 points above the VR gaming minimum score on a system based on Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 so it should live up to AMD's promise of providing VR gaming experience on a US $199 priced graphics card. Of course, we are talking about an 8GB version and 4GB one could end up with a slightly lower score. AMD is obviously targeting the GTX 970 and GTX 980 as the competition for the RX 480 so it is obvious that Polaris 10 won't get anywhere near Nvidia's Pascal-based GTX 1070 and GTX 1080, not with performance or the price.

While AMD AIB partners might not be able to hit US $199 mark since custom factory-overclocked versions will be available soon after the launch of the reference RX 480 8GB on June 30th, the Radeon RX 480 still sounds like a great deal, offering decent performance per buck.

While we wait to see the official specifications of the Nvidia GTX Titan X graphics card, unveiled by CEO Jen-Hsun Huang during Epic Games' GDC 2015 press event, we now have the first benchmarks, reportedly showing the performance of the Titan X in 3DMark 11 Extreme preset.

Published by Videocardz.com, the 3DMark 11 results for the Titan X shows the card scoring X7994 points which is quite close to two R9 290X running in Crossfire and even Geforce GTX Titan Z graphics card. To make things even more interesting, Videocardz.com also posted a screenshot of four Titan Z graphics cards running in quad-SLI which was enough for X24064 points.

We are not sure if these benchmark results are legitimate and these should be taken with a grain of salt, or a cup of salt. These 3DMark 11 results also show that the graphics card was running on 1002MHz GPU base clock while 12GB of GDDR5 memory was running at 1753MHz (7012MHz effective). Earlier rumors suggest that the GTX Titan X should be based on Nvidia 28nm GM200 Maxwell GPU and feature 3072 CUDA cores, 192 TMUs, 96 ROPs and 12GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 384-bit memory interface.

Plenty of sites had a chance to get some one on one time with the new Titan X, and we had some rather close up pictures of the card showing 8+6-pin PCI-Express power connectors, three DisplayPort, one HDMI and one DVI display outputs as well as the cooler which is pretty identical to the one seen on earlier GTX Titan graphics cards.

During its unveil at GDC 2015, Huang promised that we will hear more details regarding Titan X during Nvidia's upcoming GPU Technology Conference 2015 which will start on March 17th.

Futuremark has informed us that they have updated their 3DMark 11 benchmark to v1.0.4, making it fully compatible with Windows 8 OS as well as fixing some compatibilty isues and bugs.

According to Futuremark, the benchmark scores will not be affected and can be compared with scores from the previous version of the 3DMark 11. In addition to Windows 8 OS support, the new 3DMark v1.0.4 brings some improvements including keyboard focus that is no longer checked during the demo or when running the benchmark in a loop, 3DMark 11 now remembers the last used custom resolution, GPU count detection for muli-GPU system was corrected even when SystemInfo is disabled, added prevention on Windows Sleep mode during the test and reset of the licence key when benchmark is reinstalled.

In addition to Windows 8 compatiblity, the new 3DMark 11 version features updated DirectX redistributable, is now using static Visual C++ 2010 runtime libraries to fix rare installation issues on some systems and dependency on EvaDotNet.dll and EvaDotNet.DirectX.dll for GPU enumeration to fix compatibility issues with some systems was removed.

There are also a couple of bug fixes including several memory and texture leaks for improved stability during very long looping runs, fixed display initialization code that caused "SetFullscreenState failed: DXGI_ERROR_NOT_CURRENTLY_AVAILABLE" errors on some systems and fixed HUD timer that no longer rolls over if a singe test takes more than ten minutes. The new version also fixes some bugs in the Professional Edition as well.

The new 3DMark 11 version can be found here while the Steam version will update itself automatically.

Although they look a bit strange, we now have some of the early benchmark results of the GTX 650 Ti.

According to 3DMark 11 results posted over at WCCFTech.com, the GTX 650 Ti scores X1489 in 3DMark "xtreme" preset and P4689 in "performance" preset. These results put the GTX 650 Ti ahead of the HD 6870 but slower than the HD 7850. Of course, 3DMark 11 is far from the actual, real-world, performance, so we will wait for some game benchmarks before we make a final verdict about the upcoming GTX 650 Ti.

In addition to the early benchmark figures, the leak includes a full GPU-Z screenshot of the card confirming the 768 CUDA cores, 128-bit memory interface and the 928MHz reference GPU clock that we wrote about yesterday.

The only thing that does look strange on the screenshot is the actual memory clock which should be set at 5400MHz rather than the 6008MHz, but as we said, we will see at least a couple of factory overclocked graphics cards based on this GPU and it simply could be the choice of some partner to go with faster clocked memory.

As we wrote yesterday, Nvidia still did not give the final price of the GTX 650 Ti to its partners and the recent HD 7850 price cut will certainly put a lot of pressure on this card. The new GTX 650 Ti is currently scheduled to officially launch on 9th of October.

We are just over a week away from the official September 12th launch date and Arabpcworld.com has shed more light on the upcoming GTX 660 (non-TI) graphics card based on the GK106 GPU.

Spec wise, the upcoming GTX 660 graphics card packs 960 CUDA cores, 24 ROPs and should end up clocked at 980MHz and 1033MHz for GPU base and boost clock, feature up to 2GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6GHz and paired up with a 192-bit memory interface. The GTX 660 apparently scored P6917 and X2364 in 3DMark 11 performance and extreme presets but, since these are done with beta drivers they should be taken with a grain of salt.

The die of the GK106 is pretty much the same size as the previous mid-range GF116 GPU and the card ends up with a 140W TDP, suitable for a single 6-pin PCI-Express power connector. Of course, we are sure that some partners will come up with their own custom version that might end up with two 6-pin power connectors.

The GTX 660 was previously scheduled to launch on 6th of September but, according to our info, has been pushed back to September 12. The good side of the story is that the new GTX 660 is expected to be widely available from day one, at least if all goes well for Nvidia.

MSI Europe sent us a nice screenshot of Elmor's latest overclocking feat and overclocking experience with MSI's recently announced HD 7970 Lightning card.

We did quite a few articles on MSI's Radeon HD 7970 Lightning and we have been told before that this card really likes overclocking, but frankly we never expected it to go up to 1800MHz for the GPU. Apparently all it took was some LN2 and Swedish overclocker Elmor, which proved his OC skills at various overclocking events.

Although we are still over a week away from the official launch date, the guys from Donanimhaber.com scored some details regarding the upcoming Tahiti based Radeon HD 7950 card.

According to their info, the card should be running at 800MHz for the GPU and 1,250MHz (5GHz) for 3GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with the same 384-bit memory interface. In case you missed it, the Radeon HD 7950 packs 1792 stream processors, or 28 GCN compute units as AMD calls them these days.

In addition to the reference specs, Donanimhaber.com also scored 3DMark 11 Extreme and CPU-Z screenshot of the Radeon HD 7950 card running on 880MHz for the core. According to results, the card scores 2385 marks and still ends up faster than the GTX 580. As always, 3DMark 11 doesn't always reflect the actual real-world performance so we'll have to wait a bit longer to see how well it performs in various game titles.

As you already know, it looks like AMD gave a green light to its partners for non-reference cards since day one and there will be a lot of custom cooled and factory overclocked cards once it launched on January 31st. According to what we know, the price is still set at US $449.99.

It appears that our friends over at VR-Zone have been ringing in the New Year with the excitement of some exceptional GPU hardware benchmarks on fresh 28nm AMD Southern Islands silicon, particularly of the enthusiast type.

The site was able to successfully overclock their AMD Radeon HD 7970 reference board from 1125MHz core speed to a 1267MHz core speed with a minor voltage bump from 1.15v to 1.25 volts using publicly available software and a special GPU BIOS (which VR-Zone claims will be revealed on Monday, January 9th).

We were impressed with the 3DMark 11 Performance Preset scores, which improved from P8227 on stock clocks to P10259 with the voltage adjustment. Nevertheless, 3DMark 11 Extreme Preset scores also improved from X2764 on stock clocks to X3490 with the voltage adjustment.

We look forward to reporting on AMD’s 28nm Tahiti GPUs in person at CES 2012 in just one week from now. In the meantime, more preliminary benchmarks and details can be found here.

We managed to score some fresh info on the performance of AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 7970 card. Of course, as it was the case with previous performance figures we wrote about, these are only 3DMark 11 figures and are done with the first "usable" driver, but gives at least some insight about the performance that can only get better once the final driver shows up.

When compared to the HD 6970, the HD 7970 is around 50 percent faster in 3DMark 11 Extreme test. It scores around 2800 points while the HD 6970 can get up to around 1800 points. The HD 6990 scores around 3400 points in the same test, but according to our sources, HD 7970 is more than happy with a good OC that draws the card an inch away from the HD 6990. The previously reported 30ish percent was probably taken from 3DMark 11 Entry setting test where all the cards are closer in performance.

We were also told about the 3DMark 11 Performance setting performance that ends up on par with the HD 6990 but we aren't sure if these are with or without OC.

These numbers also mean that the HD 7970 ends up faster than the Nvidia GTX 590 in some cases. Of course, as always, take these numbers with a grain of salt as final driver could change a thing or two, but we guess that we'll know for sure on 22nd of December.

The guys from Donanimhaber.com managed to score some slides revealing the performance of the upcoming Sandy Bridge-E processor series, or to be precise, the flaghsip Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition. In general, the new Sandy Bridge-E is around 47% faster on average when compared to Intel's current top offer, the Core i7-990X Extreme Edition.

As it was detailed earlier, the Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition is Intel's top offer in the upcoming Sandy Bridge-E CPU lineup and supports the upcoming LGA2011 socket. It features six cores ticking at 3.3GHz with Turbo Boost of up to 3.9GHz, has 12 threads with HyperThreading and a total of 15MB of L3 cache.

The test lineup has some quite interesting benches including Cinebench 11.5, 3DMark 11, Sisoft Sandra and much more. As noted, Intel's upcoming socket LGA2011 Core i7-3960X EE is 47.25% faster on average when pitched to go against the current socket LGA1366 Core i7-990X EE CPU. In its slides, Intel claims that the perfromance boost comes from 33% higher memory bandwidth on the quad-channel DDR3 as well as from the new AVX instruction set that takes care of CPU intensive tasks.

There has been some rumours regarding the Sandy Bridge-E launch date and as far as we know, Intel is currently talking about late October/early November although our best bet is end of October. Also you can expect some serious feature packed motherboards from partners once Intel gives a green light.